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Queens (Queens County)

County or city: Queens (Queens County) Utility territory: Con Edison for electric across the entire borough; National Grid (legacy KeySpan) for natural gas Verified: May 27, 2026 Source quality: Secondary

What programs apply here

Queens has more 1-3 family detached and semi-detached housing than any other NYC borough. The rebate stack here looks closer to a Long Island or Westchester pattern than to dense Manhattan. Electric is Con Edison; gas is National Grid. At a Queens address you can apply for:

  • NY-Sun: the state's upfront solar incentive. Queens has substantial usable rooftop area on single-family and two-family homes across the southern and eastern parts of the borough.
  • NY-Sun Community Solar: for renters and for homeowners whose roofs are shaded or unsuitable.
  • NY State Solar Tax Credit: 25% state income tax credit, capped at $5,000.
  • NY State Geothermal Credit: more feasible in Queens than in the denser boroughs because detached homes often have rear-yard drilling access.
  • NYS Clean Heat: heat pump rebates through Con Edison.
  • Comfort Home: insulation and air sealing packages, broadly applicable to the borough's mid-century housing stock.
  • EmPower+: the income-qualified path and the federal HEAR intake.
  • Solar for All: community solar bill credits for income-qualified households.
  • Con Edison Residential Rebates: heat pump, weatherization, and smart thermostat rebates.
  • National Grid Rebates: Queens gas rebates run through National Grid's downstate gas program.

What stacks at this address

Queens has the strongest heat pump retrofit opportunity of any NYC borough because the housing stock supports straightforward ducted or ducted-plus-ductless installs. Useful combinations:

  • Clean Heat + Con Ed rebate for a full heat pump retrofit. A Queens single-family or two-family home converting from a gas boiler or gas furnace to a cold-climate air-source heat pump is the prototypical Clean Heat case. The Con Edison rebate is filed by a Clean Heat-registered contractor; the gas line decommissioning is a separate National Grid transaction.
  • Geothermal + state geothermal credit. Detached Queens homes with rear-yard space can support vertical-loop geothermal. The utility Clean Heat rebate stacks with the NY State Geothermal Credit. Air-source installs do not qualify for the geothermal credit.
  • NY-Sun + state solar credit. Queens has the rooftop area to make this stack meaningful for a large share of homeowners. The state credit is computed on post-rebate net cost.
  • Comfort Home + Con Ed weatherization. A mid-century Queens detached home with original wall cavities and minimal attic insulation is a strong Comfort Home candidate. The Better Package and the Con Edison weatherization rebate can run on the same scope. Confirm scope with the contractor before signing.
  • EmPower+ + HEAR. Income-qualified Queens households apply once through EmPower+. The same intake routes federal HEAR funds.

County or city programs unique to here

  • NYC Accelerator. Free expert advice on energy retrofits for owners of small buildings (1-9 units) and large buildings. The 1-9 unit track covers nearly all owner-occupied Queens housing. Start at accelerator.nyc.
  • Local Law 97. Applies to buildings over 25,000 square feet. Most Queens homeowners are well below the threshold; the main Local Law 97 exposure in Queens sits in larger Long Island City co-op and condo buildings and in commercial properties.
  • Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. Available in NYC through Energize NY PACE for larger projects. Practical for Queens multifamily and commercial; not for typical single-family owners.
  • NYC HPD weatherization assistance. Limited support for HPD-regulated buildings and small landlords. Most market-rate Queens homeowners are out of scope.
  • National Grid gas program separation. Queens gas is the former KeySpan footprint, now National Grid. Gas rebates and gas service questions go through National Grid; electric and Clean Heat go through Con Edison. Confirming which utility owns which rebate before booking the work avoids back-and-forth later.

Who to call locally

  • NYC Accelerator: (212) 656-9202, accelerator.nyc. The first call for a Queens retrofit.
  • Con Edison residential customer service: rebate intake through coned.com; phone support on the monthly bill.
  • National Grid residential customer service (downstate gas): call National Grid directly for Queens gas-side rebates and gas service termination.
  • NYS Clean Heat rebate finder: cleanheat.ny.gov/find-available-rebates for address-specific heat pump amounts and a Queens-certified contractor list.
  • Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice: climate.cityofnewyork.us.

Climate Smart Communities status

The City of New York is a Certified Climate Smart Community under the New York State CSC program, which covers all five boroughs including Queens. The certification supports city-level access to state climate grants; it does not directly change individual homeowner rebate eligibility.

Important local dates

  • Con Edison rebate budgets follow the utility's annual rate-case cycle. Mid-year program-line exhaustion has happened in past years; apply earlier in the year when possible.
  • National Grid downstate gas program budgets follow National Grid's own energy efficiency program cycle filed with the New York Public Service Commission.
  • NYC Accelerator funding renews on the Mayor's Office budget cycle. No fixed program-end date is published as of May 27, 2026.

Source

NYSERB.com is an independent research site. It is not affiliated with the City of New York, the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, Con Edison, National Grid, NYSERDA, the State of New York, or any utility. Verify all program details and incentive amounts directly with the relevant program administrator before making any financial decision.

Verified against accelerator.nyc, www.coned.com, www.nationalgridus.com on May 27, 2026.

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